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BMH will be attending Feria Expobioenergia 2012, October 23-25, in Valladolid, Spain
BMH will be attending Feria Expobioenergia 2012, October 23-25, in Valladolid, Spain Expobioenergia is one of the most important international events in the bioenergy industry. The success of the previous events has made Expobioenergia a unique meeting place and an international point of reference. This year Expobioenergia will take place between October 23rd and 25th. BMH Technology will be ...
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New IrBEA website launched
IrBEA are pleased to announce the release of their new website at www.irbea.org, hope you like it. We intend to have the latest information and news from bioenergy industry. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please send them to contact@irbea.ie. Fuelled by interest from members we have included new functionality to our website called ‘Members Forum’, this gives one ...
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Presidential election
Dr Heinz Kopetz has been elected as the new president of the World Bioenergy Association, WBA. Dr Kopetz was unanimously voted in by the board at a meeting in Jönköping, Sweden following the earlier decision of the former president Kent Nyström to tender his resignation after many years of service representing the forefront of the global bioenergy industry. Nyström has served ...
By Elmia AB
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Videos available of the presentations from the 10th International Bioenergy Conference organised by AVEBIOM
The audiovisuals have been published in original version at www.congresobioenergia.org All the talks corresponding to the three themed blocks that made up the 10th International Bioenergy Conference, organised by AVEBIOM on 22nd September in Valladolid are available online at www.congresobioenergia.org in video format. As was made clear at the meeting entitled “Challenges for Biomass ...
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New agreement brings global bioenergy expertise to Sweden
The Swedish Bioenergy Association (Svebio) and Elmia AB have agreed to co-organise another three World Bioenergy events in Jönköping in 2010, 2012 and 2014. World Bioenergy was launched almost six years ago and after four editions has established itself as the internationally leading meeting place and trade fair for the bioenergy industry. World Bioenergy is now also one of the few trade fairs ...
By Elmia AB
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Australian Renewable Energy Agency Providing $2.4 Million To Support Biorefinery Development
On June 23, 2016, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced $2.4 million in funding to support the development and construction of a biocrude and biofuel laboratory in Queensland. The $5.3 million project is expected to be completed in the spring of 2019 and will be Australia's first biorefinery producing renewable diesel and jet fuel from plant material. Australian companies ...
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World Bioenergy 2014
"Radviliskis machine factory" is going to present its products during international fair "World Bioenergy 2014" which is held 3-5th of June in Sweden, Jönköping. World Bioenergy is a unique meeting place for the global bioenergy industry thanks to its combination of theory, practice, problem solving and being a meeting place for business deals. "Radviliskis machine factory" present ...
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Major report released at “Bioenergy Australia 2009”
Australia’s bioenergy industry – which uses biomass for heat, power (bioelectricity) and liquid fuels (biofuels) – is relatively small. However, in the future it has very significant growth potential, driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to secure future fuel supply. During the conference, the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) will release the ...
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Global Bioenergies: Industrial Pilot Supported by a €5.2M State Financing
Regulatory News: Global Bioenergies (Paris:ALGBE) announces successful testing of its isobutene process at laboratory pilot scale and the beginning of the subsequent phase dedicated to industrial pilot testing. The beginning of this new phase in process industrialization is scheduled for July 2013 and will be supported by a €5.2M State financing via theInvestissements d’Avenirprogram ...
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Conference General Chairman Message
Biomass is a raw material with a multitude of applications, suitable to replace fossil resources, for use both as an energy source as well as for material utilization. For a sustainable energy supply, biomass is indispensable; but it is also limited, is not sufficient for all applications, and it ranks in priority after food and feed. Biomass technology has changed from an ancient but newly ...
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Advanced biofuels factsheet launched
World Bioenergy Association (WBA) is pleased to announce the release of the factsheet ‘Advanced Biofuels’ – the seventh in the series of publications. This succeeds the release of the summary of oil price drop survey conducted by WBA to understand the effects of oil price drop on bioenergy industry. The WBA factsheet aims to provide better understanding of the advanced biofuels ...
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GLOBAL BIOENERGIES nominated as one of the five most innovative European biotech SMEs by EuropaBio
Global Bioenergies (Paris:ALGBE), an industrial biology company developing sustainable routes to light olefins, has been nominated as one of the five most innovative European biotech SMEs by EuropaBio, representing more than 1800 European companies. EuropaBio, the principal organization to represent more than 1800 of Europe’s biotechnology companies, has ...
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World Bioenergy 2014 Was a Workshop for True Change
In ten years the World Bioenergy trade fair and conference at Elmia in Jönköping, Sweden has gone from being a display window for Swedish bioenergy know-how to being a global workshop for an industry that is creating jobs, raising people out of poverty and slowing down climate change. “This year we focused on workshops and discussions, which was a great success,” said ...
By Elmia AB
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Participants Sought for Development of Non-Volatile Residue Content Biofuels Standard
Interested parties are invited to join in the development of a proposed ASTM International standard for determining the non-volatile residue in ethanol and ethanol solutions. ASTM’s committee on bioenergy and industrial chemicals from biomass (E48) is developing the proposed standard. According to ASTM International member Kari Cook, monitoring non-volatile residue content is an ...
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Abengoa World Bioenergy Forum 2015
During May 20-21, 2015 more than 100 representatives of the biofuel industry and bioenergy experts gathered in Sevilla at the ABENGOA - WORLD BIOENERGY LEADERSHIP FORUM to discuss the future of biofuels – in particular bioethanol. The industry succeeded in the last years in starting cellulosic ethanol production in commercial scale – in Brazil, Italy and USA. Cellulosic ethanol ...
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FAO unveils new bioenergy assessment tool
A decision-support tool developed by FAO will help ensure that countries can enter the rapidly growing field of bioenergy industry to produce benefits for the poor without jeopardizing their food security. The tool, an “analytical framework” designed by a team of economists from FAO, Utrecht University’s Copernicus Institute and Darmstadt’s Oeko-Institut, was unveiled at a two-day experts’ ...
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Bioenergy Insight Conference 2017: Q&A session with Future Biogas’ John Scott-Kerr
The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability at scale. The debut ...
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GLOBAL BIOENERGIES Opens the Way to Bio-sourced Propylene
Regulatory News: Global Bioenergies (Paris:ALGBE) demonstrates a novel metabolic pathway enabling the direct conversion of renewable resources to propylene, one of the main building blocks of the petrochemical industry. Propylene, mainly used to manufacture polypropylene plastics for the packaging and the car industries, is the second largest petrochemical by volume and currently represents a ...
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Industry calls for uniform sustainability criteria for all bioenergy
One set of sustainability criteria for all bioenergy, whether in liquid, solid or gaseous form, is necessary to create a predictable and stable regulatory environment that will promote innovation and develop the bioenergy market, two major industrial players have recommended. In doing so the criteria should consider the source of the bioenergy, regardless of its end use or form. Current ...
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FAO`s tool weighs pros and cons of biofuels
Calculating the costs and benefits of investing in biofuels may become easier for policymakers with a guide launched by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) Analytical Framework, released last month (17 May), was developed over the past three years and tested in Peru, Tanzania and Thailand. Heiner Thofern, head of the BEFS project, said that the ...
By SciDev.Net
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